Tag: coping

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here. All my coping tips are under this tag.

Today’s tip is to congratulate someone for an achievement that may go unnoticed.

I had a friend get accepted to speak at a conference. That happens all the time, and plenty of people get accepted. Plenty get rejected as well, but since I knew, I just sent a congrats to them.

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here. All my coping tips are under this tag.

Today’s tip is to appreciate kindness and thank people who do things for you.

I get this a lot as a coach, and it’s always nice to hear kids thank me after every practice. It’s a nice sign this year, which I haven’t always had in the past. This is a good group of kids.

For me, I keep seeing memes around this time of year that it costs you no money to say please and thank you, among other small things. I agree. I have made an effort to do this more, thanking the family for simple things, thanking my yoga instructors after every class, thanking service people for doing what they’d do anyway.

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here. All my coping tips are under this tag.

Today’s tip is to help others by giving away something you don’t need.

The pandemic resulted in a lot of people giving things away. Plenty of charities were overwhelmed. I think that has changed a touch now, and I decided to go through some of the things we have around and drop them off at the local Goodwill office. There are other places that can take things, but I know they sell things cheaply to people in need, and they use the money to help others.

For me, I took some sports equipment that my kids had lightly used and bundled it up, taking it in. I also had some extra jackets that were barely worn. I’ve got too many, so I took some down for others to use.

We had a vanity as well that didn’t work for a remodel this year. We tried to sell it, but it didn’t work, so I packed it up and donated it to Habitat for them to sell.

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here. All my coping tips are under this tag.

Today’s tip is to contact someone who may be alone or feeling isolated.

I’ve done this a few times, but this is another good excuse to do so. I know a couple people that live alone, and I’ve worried about them a bit. I reached out and chatted a bit, just asking how they were and engaging in a bit of a conversation.

It was good to touch base and I actually reached out to a second friend to check on them.

It’s easy to forget how different someone else’s live might be and how lonely it can be to not be with others this time of year.